Do We Need an Equal Rights Amendment to Ensure Gender Equality? In celebration of Women’s History Month, explore the parallels between second-wave feminism and the Supreme Court cases of that time with constitutional law expert Cary Franklin, leading women’s history scholar Alice Kessler-Harris, and American…

11 VoteRunLead alumnae were on the Illinois Primary ballot on Tuesday, March . With 7 VoteRunLead women winning, that makes a 63% win rate for VoteRunLead alumnae! Four women fought the good the fight. Nine…

Bustle and VoteRunLead both feel a civic responsibility to women in America, providing them with the resources to get and stay politically active in their communities. The results of the poll have laid a roadmap for work to be done nationally on a…

All women polled selected healthcare (67 percent) as the most important issue to them. A distant second, rounding out the top three issues, were education (48 percent) and the economy (43 percent). When split across party, healthcare was still the top issue among…

American women look for candidates to be honest with them. When asked which traits they feel are most important in an ideal political candidate, nearly two-thirds (66 percent) said “honesty” was what mattered most. It was a clear lead characteristic, followed by “consistent…

Women are voting on the issues that are most important to them, as opposed to a candidate’s gender. The data from this survey and the 2016 election results bear this out and supports longstanding views that women are issue-based voters.

The surge of women running for office is in the millions, and there is no sign of the momentum stopping. More than 1 in 4 (26 percent) of the women polled indicated that they have been motivated to run or…

The attention and consequences garnered by the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements are working because women believe that sexual harassment and assault are being taken seriously. Thirty-three percent of women indicated their reason for becoming more politically active was #MeToo, the…

Women are influencing elections in new ways. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are influencing elections. Women are showing their ownership over their bodies and their rights as American citizens through political action; 39 percent of women ranked women’s rights as…

OPENING: Executive and Program Administrator, VoteRunLead Location: New York, NY Full-time Starting: Available immediately About VoteRunLead VoteRunLead trains barrier-breaking women to run for political office and win. We empower real women to run…